From: "QUEISSER,ANDREW (HP-Corvallis,ex1)" <andrew_queisser@...>
Date: 2002-04-03T03:41:21+09:00
Subject: RE: seeking to understand...

I can't quite agree with the Perl->Ruby path either. I'm
from a pure C++ background, hate Perl, hate VB (out of
principle), neutral about Java, didn't like the self thing
and the indentation about Python.

Love Ruby, finally a rapid development language like
SmallTalk with a friendly syntax.

Andrew Queisser

> -----Original Message-----
> From: james@rubyxml.com [mailto:james@rubyxml.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 10:23 AM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: RE: seeking to understand...
> 
> 
> > In my opinion, if you like Perl, you'll love Ruby. But if 
> you come from a
> > background of VB or Java, you will probably prefer Python.
> 
> How weird.  I come from a VB/Java/Perl background.  You're 
> right in that
> one can think of Ruby as a better Perl (Perl 6, right? ;) ), 
> but VB and
> Java have too many restrictions for my taste.
> 
> Python's forced-indentation left a bad taste in my mouth, so 
> I never got
> too excited about it.  Ruby is just so much more fluid.  You 
> get more OO
> than Java, and the immediate code-and-run gratification of the VB IDE.
> 
> 
> James
> 
> >
> > My $0.02,
> > Barron
>